E-text prepared by K. D. Thornton, Bruce Albrecht, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 16977-h.htm or 16977-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/9/7/16977/16977-h/16977-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/9/7/16977/16977-h.zip) FOOD AND HEALTH DO WOMEN READ our little books which come so regularly to their homes? Indeed they do, and if only one is left at a two-family house we are asked to send another at once. We feel sure that they are read from cover to cover. * * * * * LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S MEDICINES Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound The original Pinkham medicine and best known of all. It has been on the market for nearly fifty years and is put up in the following forms: Liquid. Dose--One tablespoonful every four hours through the day. Dry (Tablets). Dose--One tablet every four hours through the day. Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash. FOR LEUCORRHOEA AND INFLAMMATION Liquid, a concentrated extract, ready to dilute and use at once, the most convenient form. Use daily as a vaginal injection. Add one teaspoonful (in severe cases two teaspoonfuls) of the Sanative Wash to one pint of warm water, mix thoroughly and it is ready for use. (Can be had, if preferred, in dry form, to steep.) Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Medicine. FOR POOR BLOOD We recommend this as a good blood medicine for either men or women. Dose--One tablespoonful three times a day, half an hour before eating. Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills. FOR CONSTIPATION Dose--Take three the first night, two the second, and one the third; and unless there is a regular and healthy movement of the bowels continue taking one every night. FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS GENERALLY Send for LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S PRIVATE TEXT BOOK UPON AILMENTS PECULIAR TO WOMEN, mailed free on application to THE LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. Lynn, Mass., Public Inspection of our Laboratories Cordially Invited. HINTS FOR MEALTIME How often do we hear women exclaim, "Oh dear, what shall I have for the next meal?" This little book will aid you in answering that troublesome question. The recipes are carefully selected and we hope you will find them helpful. More important to you than the question of food is that of health. Therefore, in this book we show you many letters from women who have received great benefit by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. You have heard of this splendid medicine, for it has been used by women for nearly fifty years. It is a Woman's Medicine for Women's Ailments. It is prepared from medicinal plants that are especially adapted for the treatment of the troubles women so often have.